Okay, this is getting a little ridiculous. Those of us here in the NYC metropolitan area are seriously thinking about building an ark. If it hasn't quite been forty days and forty nights, it certainly FEELS like it has been. So, because all it does around here is rain, it rained on the barbeque my brother Rob and my lovely sister-in-law Claudia had yesterday. However, it was a rain or shine affair (I'm starting to think we need to say that the other way around), and so despite the damp, the party went on.
There were all sorts of good things to eat and drink. We all started with the drink.
There was little something for everyone.
Regardless of how old you were.
Whoops. Thank goodness for child-proof caps.
There was even barbequing in the rain, which is even more fun when you have twelve feet tall rambunctious teenagers cavorting right next to your red-hot grill.
And when the deluge started -- and yes ma'am, it deluged -- there were many strong-bodied men around to put up the tent, which went up in two shakes. I was very impressed.
And in the midst of all of it, there was my mom's classic spinach dip, which started out as being the point of this post, but actually the point of it is that despite the pouring rain - or maybe as part of being outside in the pouring rain under our cozy tents - we all had a blast. So all of you looking at the forecast for next week (guess what it says? you guessed it!), don't surrender to a few million raindrops. Because the company was all the sunshine we needed.
MOM'S SPINACH DIP
- 1 package frozen chopped spinach
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 can chopped water chestnuts
- 1 cup mayonaisse
- 1 packahe Knorr's vegetable soup mix
- 1 cup fine curd cottage cheese.
Combine all ingredients and serve in hollowed-out round bread loaf with sliced bread on the side. This recipe can be doubled. Or tripled, if you are my mother. (Love you, Mom!!)
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